Thursday, December 28, 2017

Clear skies and a quickie image of the Moon

Bullialdus is a lunar impact crater located in the western part of the Mare Nubium. To the north by north-west is the broken-rimmed and lava-flooded crater Lubiniezky, north-northeast of Bullialdus is Gould, nearly east-southeast of Bullialdus is Wolf, and south-west of Bullialdus lies the smaller crater König.
Bullialdus is 61 km in diameter and is named after Ismaël Bullialdus, a famous astronomer and mathematician during the seventeenth century. An early defender of the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, Ismael Bullialdus is known today as "the most noted astronomer of his generation."
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isma%C3%ABl_Bullialdus)

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La Pine Observatory

About La Pine Observatory

It has always been a dream of mine to have a place to store and use my various telescopes. After purchasing an original C8 and a 13 inch Dobsonian telescope, I knew I had to finally build an observatory to put them in.

This is a roll-off roof design. The interior is 8 foot by 8 foot, just barely enough room for my needs at present. There is still some work to be done to make the roll-off roof easier to move (it turned out to be much heavier than I expected...but then, it will not blow off!)

My desire is to produce some good quality images of the night sky and bring awareness to the awesome creativity of God in the starry heavens.